back from a shopping trip which was supposed to be happy and cheery.

was supposed to.
till i had argued with mum minutes ago.

it's all over some stupid issue of buying CNY clothes.
i'm blaming her for rebuking me when i complain about having no time to shop.

which is true, on my side.
firstly, all my shopping time last week was given to szeman's present.
secondly, all the school work kept me essentially busy.
thirdly, the reds bestowed me a cramp that made me grouchy and ache 24/7.

so what was i to do?
EVERY SINGLE year i'd have this stupid fucking problem.

i hate all the designers out there that think all girls are petite in nature.
what about the plus size girls huh? don't we cut a share of the consumer market?
and i HATE it when all the skinny girls start complaining that they can't find NICE clothes.
WTF. you're spoilt for choice and still whine about it?
why not i stuff you into the body of a plus size girl and let you understand what it truly means by CAN'T FIND NICE CLOTHES?

i'm trying very hard not to be picky about my clothes.
but each time i find something nice, i CAN'T fit into it.
what's the whole damn fucking point?

i should just cut a rug and wrap myself up.
then i wouldn't be fuming over such a stupid issue.


i'm not someone who endorses "skinny is pretty".
but i'm slowly succumbing to that idea.

i'll be lying through my teeth if i were to declare that the main reason i'm trying to lose weight because i want to be fit.
partially yes, but which girl doesn't want to look pretty?
i wanna ditch that disappointment of being unable to fit into something you adore.
and be given the choice instead.

RANTING TIME.

i'm already feeling overwhelmed at the 2nd week of semester.
when my timetable is not even half as hectic as it would be after tutorials start next week.

the early classes are draining my energy away.
and the workload never seems to lessen.

3 weekly quizzes, 1 weekly lab report.
just the appetizer out of the meal.

i'm not looking forward to the second half of the semester at all.


plus it's that time of the month again.

and so utterly awesome that aside from the annoying PMS-ish behaviour, i have to endure the supplementary cramps. gah.


sheesh. i wonder how long i can keep up my positive outlook.
may this week be over soon.

sunshine after the rain.
and i'm enjoying every radiating glow from the sun.

the past week's worth of rain kept me in a lazy mood.
so today, the rain having kept off by the glorious sun...
finally made me mustered enough energy to clean up my room.

ok mine isn't the big operation sort like jane's.
(i bet hers must have been a pig sty, heh)
it was way overdue since the end of exams and in lieu with the upcoming chinese new year.

whenever i do a major cleanup, i'll never miss flipping through old photos.
those were really old (childhood-jc) since the newest photos are in digital form.
and it's always really funny to see how much we've changed physically.
all of us look so dorky, haha.

my fave picture ever.

my dad's so hilarious right?

first week in school was relatively ok.
still a little unused to waking up early and attending lectures.
but i must keep my positive attitude.

shouts: "aja aja hwaiting!"

and i acquired this sweet little furry companion yesterday.

so cuddly. *squeals*
i'm gonna bring it everywhere i go.
dad's relieved that this little fellow eased up my tirade of whining over buying a golden retriever.

well dad, yes i'm distracted. at the moment.
but i will not forget that i want the real thing.

Overdue Entry Part II
(don't worry, there won't be part III)

well i've more or less covered the events in the past month.
my memory's a little stunted now so i may have missed something.

let me do a review on my holiday "To Do" list.

- watching harry potter on 23 nov.
- JCNET bbq on 2 dec.
- lapping up good reads.
- swimming!
- KTV.
- anime/VCD/DVD marathon. < strictly speaking, not really counted.
- playing FFVII.
- time with friends.
- overdued retail therapy.
- time with family.

not too bad, i guess.
didn't have the time to visit the library much so no good reads.
plus was lazy to go swimming during my off days.
now that i wanna go, it rains the entire day.

brrrr... speaking of rain.
i can't stand the rainy season.
it makes me gloomy and lazy. can i have the sun back please?

visited the dentist recently and not too happy about it.
i know my dental visit is way overdued since 5 years ago.
and not too surprised when the dentist informed me that i had 4 cavities.
but i didn't expect her to fill them all up in less than 10 minutes.
let's just say that her attitude wasn't all that good too.

hours later, had very bad throbbing toothache.
i suspected that she may have missed out on her filling somewhere so i had to call and fix another appointment.

she got really irritated when mum pointed out that she may have missed out a hole.
i mean anyone would feel that way if she'd only spent so little time on the fillings.
she insisted on an x-ray and it turns out that she's right.
the ache is not caused by a cavity but by raw nerve endings.
so in the end, i am faced with the choice of forking out almost $900 to extract my tooth nerves or just bear with the pain.

i chose the latter and it was a wise choice.
because the pain subsided a few days later.
i'm not gonna hand my money to a money-grabbing dentist. bleah.

results were out last december.
wouldn't say i do too well because i didn't manage to maintain my score.
but wells, i did improve and performed slightly better than i expected.
so gotta work much harder next semester.

dreary cors bidding's over.

will be taking
LSM2101 Metabolism & Regulation
LSM2102 Molecular Biology
LSM2202 Experimental Molecular & Cell Biology
SE2214 Arts of Southeast Asia
LAJ1201 Japanese 1

sooo happy i'm able to squeeze in japanese this semester.
but i had to throw so much bid points for my arts modules.
my general account's kinda sucked dry now.

school's starting tomorrow and i'm so dreading it.
yet another vicious cycle continues.
but come late april, the 3 month holidays await.

i'm gonna start thinking positive from now on :)

Overdue Entry Part I

paiseh, everyone.
i'd promise one update eons ago but erm...
let's just take it as i was too busy? *coughs

it ain't possible for me to write (in detail) everything that happened over the past month right?
the best i can offer is a summarized recap of the important events.


*WARNING: LONG & GRAPHIC-INTENSIVE ENTRY AHEAD


#1 // working at pet safari

besides fattening my bank account a 'lil and freezing to death at the store, the one-month stint as a salesgirl rekindled my intense adoration for dogs.
though sitting around for 9 hours isn't exactly what i like, what kept me alive was all the doggies that came to the store.

i'll avoid any comments about bosses, staff, company etc (the blogosphere isn't exactly that private) but i can only say that i love the dogs more than the people there :)

let the picture do the talking.

#2 // movie magic

caught 2/3 movies on my "To Watch" list.
King Kong unexpectedly made me choke with tears and Narnia fueled my wish to finish reading Lewis' entire chronicle.



#3 // KTV goodness

two very wholesome KTV sessions with zhuang and alex/jane respectively.
it's just great to scream your lungs out. especially after the stressful exams and equally painful job.

didn't manage to take any pictures with zhuang cos i don't think we brought camera.
but i can vividly remember that we sang for almost 10 hours straight!
setting a whole new KTV-ing record for me. gonna be hard to break this one.

with jane and alex, it was really funny.
lex even bought us x'mas pressie - some grass monster.

we're supposed to water it until the seeds germinate and grass grows out.
i was apprehensive about growing plants since almost every plant i bought died.
but turns out this was relatively easy to grow because...

TADA it looks like this now.

it's so easy to grow to the extent that random grasses sprout out all over.
now my monster's even spotting a green whisker. *woots

besides the grass monster, alex bestowed on us a set of limited edition neoprint stickers featuring the renowned Wonder-Face Lex.

i'm honoured to announce that this set of neoprint stickers will make its first ever appearance on my blog.

so hold your breaths everyone, and behold the spectacle that is to be unveiled.



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TADA!!!

LOL.
Wonder-Face Lex indeed lives up to his name of being the 8th world wonder.



#4 // lotsa retail therapy

after curbing expenditure for months, it was time to unleash the shopping monster in me. wahahaha.
went on lots of shopping trips and one really well deserved trip to a boat quay flea market but didn't buy much actually.
can't really compare when you have people like szeman and chin beside you, =P.

christmas lightings in orchard weren't that nice this year.
save for the huge tree in front of paragon featured in this picture.
the rest were like just mediocre. kinda sad yeah?

oooh cotton candy...
what a nostalgic thing of the past.
not that they're extinct now but we hardly ever eat it anymore.



#5 // festive season

and of course, december's the festive month.
with the joyous christmas on the 25th.

popped over to charmaine's for x'mas eve party.
but the bummmer was that i had work that day so i could only reach at 9pm.
when all the yummy food's almost gone and all the camera whores had enough of modelling in front of the camera. *tears

christmas with 208 is forever fun :)
besides the tradition of exchanging presents, we had our girls' gossip night where plentiful of relevations were exchanged.
(and i got Choya Umeshu as my pressie, thanks leeloo dearie.)

this year's christmas was great compared to last year.
not that i wanna draw a comparison but the contrast is so huge.
imagine puking and left all alone in a room compared to having 10 good friends beside you.
i'm so glad everything turned out for the better.


and just 5 days later, it's the dawning of a new year!

as usual i had work on new year eve which was a bummer (but it's the last day!)
met up with chin/szeman/zhuang to watch fireworks at the esplanade.
plus what made me really exhilarated was that this year mummy and daddy were with me to usher in the new year :)

were squashed like mad by the crowd but the fireworks were worth it.
i just wish the irksome perverts and foam sprays would disappear and everything would be perfect. what a spoiler.

anyways we proceeded back to my house to play bridge the whole night.
and dragged our feets to bugis to take a neoprint.
(pic found in zhuang's blog)

TO BE CONTINUED in PART 2>>>

ankh is finally back...

with a bang!

new layout to welcome the new year.
(and also a dedication to my current obsession FFVII)

too tired to write a proper entry.
i promise it'll be up by tomorrow.

watch this space.